Picks and Pans – Chico, CA

PICKS: Bidwell Park

Bidwell Park offers many good reasons to spend your day outdoors — a huge natural swimming pool formed by damming the creek that runs through the park, large shady fields for lounging, picnicing or playing and miles of trail for walking, jogging or biking. We managed to spend two afternoons with fellow […]

Picks and Pans – Lassen National Park

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Subway Lava Tube in Lassen N.F.

While in Lassen, we had the opportunity to walk through the prehistoric equivalent of a subway tunnel, formed by underground lava flow from ancient volcanic activity. The Native American tribes in the region thought the tubes were inhabited by a devil, understandable given that if you walked in […]

Picks and Pans – From Arcata to Burney Falls, CA

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299 to Redding

Highway 299 winds along the Trinity River for most of the way to Redding, so our trip was punctuated with glimpses of great swimming holes and wildlife sightings, including a bear drinking from the river.

Calatrava’s Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay in Redding

I was first introduced to Calatrava’s architecture by […]

Picks and Pans – In and around Ashland, OR

Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Oregon Shakespeare Festival is sort of a misnomer, as most festivals are temporary and relatively fleeting presences in a town. The OSF runs from February through November, occupies multiple permanent buildings in town, including the U.S.’s first Elizabethan Theater (a la the Globe), and brings in the major income source for the […]

Picks and Pans – From Portland to Crater Lake

Western Cascade Scenic Byway

It would be a simple matter to convince yourself that anything of importance in Oregon is along I-5, and many people do just that, which makes all the other amazing byways through the state that much better by mere fact that they’re almost unpopulated. Thanks to Sean’s penchant for studying the […]